Woodlands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1980. Farmhouse.
Woodlands Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- third-transept-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Woodlands Farmhouse, 79, Lambourne Road, Chigwell
- OS grid reference
- TQ 467 935
- Coordinates
- 51.62165, 0.11869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodlands Farmhouse is a Grade II listed lobby-entrance house dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building is aligned approximately northeast to southwest, with a southeast aspect and features a central chimney stack that creates the lobby entrance.
The farmhouse has a central rear wing that forms a T-plan, with extensions on both sides, resulting in a rectangular layout. The northern extension is a lean-to with a catslide roof, while the western extension has a pitched roof that runs parallel to the main block. The house is two storeys high.
On the ground floor, there is a central door with four flush panels and a shallow bracketed hood, flanked by one window on each side, although these windows were boarded over in June 1983. The first floor features three 20th-century casement windows. The central chimney stack has grouped diagonal shafts and was rebuilt in the 19th century.
The northeast and northwest elevations exhibit some weatherboarding. The front range includes edge-halved and bridled scarf joints in the wallplates, although the roof is not accessible. The rear wing displays arched primary bracing in the walls, along with curved queen struts and side purlins that do not have collars.
Local climate
Woodlands Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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